Minorities Quotes
595 quotes by 459 authors
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Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
— Lord Acton
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
— Samuel Adams
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The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us…
— Glenn Beck
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Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the world to be…
— John O. Brennan
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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.
— William Jennings Bryan
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
— Edmund Burke
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I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social…
— Sherman Alexie
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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west. But…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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The danger of leaving overwhelming wealth and power in the grasp of a small minority is a lesson that leaders such as ousted Tunisian president…
— Graydon Carter
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In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of…
— Dick Cheney
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If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could…
— Cher
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The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is…
— Hillary Clinton
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This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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La Raza stands for 'The Race' - and they say so openly. They are a pro-Hispanic organization; I will call them a racist organization. They…
— Steve King
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We need to be protecting American citizens who are here, out of work, and hurting today-minorities, Blacks and Whites and all colors and races that…
— Jeff Sessions
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